Quotes About Ambition

At the end of the day, I could go back to getting sixth or seventh place and being a mediocre skater, or I could be a champion. I want to be a champion.

I would love nothing more than to become a professional ice skater, but I would rather do it privately.

Before I even wanted to be an actor, I wanted to be a figure skater.

Baseball is my true passion. Skating was more of a short-term goal.

There were times when I thought of dropping skating completely and just focusing on baseball.

Right now it looks like skating is done for me. I'm ready to move on. But if baseball doesn't work out and I still have that itch for skating, I may be back.

I begged my mom to let me start skating.

I want to do some skating and then go to law school in three years. I'm enjoying it and I'm going to see where it takes me.

Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.

The main thing for me now is figure skating, which I intend to devote more than one year.

Whenever I put myself out there on the line, skating against other people, I simply want to win.

Once I really understood what skating was and what the Olympic really entailed, I knew that's what I wanted to do: I wanted to be there; I wanted to represent the U.S.

In skating, I knew that 2014 was going to be it for me. I had my heart set on trying baseball again after.

I've made a bit of a career taking daunting projects out of Lego. I've done things like a dinosaur skeleton and stuff like that.

I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.

My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.

The African Americans' story is one that seems to be a repeated commitment to a scenario for success and failure. With each failure, the blow is that much more traumatizing until finally one reaches a point where there is to some degree an internalization, skepticism, fatalism, and expectation that it isn't going to work.

I think my father's skepticism fueled me to work harder.

I was a baby when I began, but I knew exactly what I wanted to wear myself. I became a jewelry designer because I knew how to do something with a pencil and sketch my ideas.

To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.

I never set out to do a sketch show.

If I told my 18-year-old self that one day I'd have a sitcom and a sketch show on TV, I think he'd just drum his fingers and go, 'When? How long is that going to take?'

Without realizing it, I think I've wanted to do a sketch show since I was, like, 11 years old. Like everybody else in comedy, I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live,' and I was doing characters with my friends.

In your 20s, you're just a sketch of what you think you're trying to be.